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In-wall light switch recommendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by aion@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I'm looking to replace a few in-wall light switches for lights that are not easily replaced with smart bulbs. I currently use Home Assistant with z2m for all my smart lights and switches, so zigbee switches would be preferred. Does anyone have recommendations for smart in-wall switches?

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Been using enbrighten switches from Jasco. I use their Zwave but I think they have ZigBee too.

I use the ones that look like toggle switches over the paddle style to match the rest of the house .

I have them on all our bathroom fans too so they can be left on (steam / smell disposal) and auto shut off after 30 min.

[–] aion@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm think about putting them on bathroom fans as well. It would be really nice to have them automatically turn on/off based on humidity.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had a humidity switch in ours a while ago (not smart) and it would turn on too much even if a shower wasn't running but our windows were open. And, enough humidity was in the air. So that didn't work out great.

It was a self contained deal not a smart switch though

[–] aion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I got the enbrighten switches set up on the bathroom fan. After a few months of observing the humidity changes I settled on triggering the fan based on the derivative of the humidity. I found that 2%/s with 2min of averaging works well, no false positives so far.